In this book Harvey Mitchell re-examines the nature of Voltaire’s hostility by analyzing the Enlightenment, its role as a source of modern Anti-Semitism, and its shaping of modern Jewish identity.
Mitchell's study uses Tocqueville's Democracy in America to study the condition of democracy in the United States in our own time. He addresses... Læs mere
This perceptive study of the great nineteenth-century historian reveals in de Tocqueville a unity of thought and a deep involvement with philosophical questions, in particular the struggle between historical forces and individual choice.